Finding Community - Diana Leafe Christian

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Acknowledgments
Foreword

Introduction: Ecovillages and Other Intentional Communities
What This Book Can Do For You
Who This Book is For
What is an Intentional Community?

SECTION 1: COMMUNITIES: AN OVERVIEW
Chapter 1: Why Community?
You'll Impact the Planet with a Smaller Ecological Footprint
You'll Feel Safer
You'll Most Likely be Healthier
You'll Save Money
You'll Grow as a Person
You'll Experience Connection and Support with Like-minded Friends and Colleagues
You'll Have More Fun

Chapter 2: Ten Most Common Fears about Joining a Community
1. I Don't Want to Live out in the Boonies
2. I Don't Want to Live with a Bunch of Hippies
3. I Don't Want to Live a Poverty Consciousness Lifestyle with Limited Resources
4. I Don't Want to Live with countercultural types who are trying to avoid responsibility
5. I Don't Want to Have to Join a Religion or Take up some Spiritual Practice I Don't Believe in
6. I Don't Want to Live in a Hierarchical System or Follow a Charismatic Leader
7. I Don't Want to Have to Think like Everyone Else.What if it Turns out to be a Cult?
8. I'm Afraid I Won't have Enough Privacy or Autonomy
9. I Don't Want to Have to Share Incomes or Give all my Money to the Community
10.What if we all Can't Get Along? I Don't Want to Live with a Bunch of Bad-tempered,Dysfunctional People
Other common questions about community living

Chapter 3: Community Living-Day-to-Day (excerpt from Communities magazine)

Chapter 4: Ecovillages: For Future Generations
Ecovillages - Multiple and Various
Human-Scale, Full-Featured Settlements
Five Characteristics of Ecovillages
But Is it Really an Ecovillage?
Lifeboat Communities, Future Generations

Chapter 5: Cohousing Communities
The Costs of Cohousing
Joining a Cohousing Community
Cohousing Communities and Non-Cohousing Communities
Elder Cohousing

Chapter 6: Urban Communities: Group Households and Housing Co-ops
Urban Group Households
Organized Neighborhoods
Housing Co-ops
Senior Housing Co-ops
Student Housing Co-ops

Chapter 7: Rural Homesteading Communities, Conference and Retreat Centers
Homesteading Communities
Conference and Retreat Centers

Chapter 8: Spiritual Communities
Spiritually Eclectic Communities
Communities with a Common Spiritual Practice
Camphill Communities

Chapter 9: Christian Communities
Service-Oriented Christian Communities
Catholic Worker Communities
L'Arche Communities

Chapter 10: Income-Sharing Communes
Radical Cooperation
What's It Like Financially?
Why Are Income-Sharing Communities so Well Known?
Benefts of Income-Sharing
Challenges of Income-Sharing
Who Income-Sharing Works Well For

Chapter 11: What Does It Cost?
Factors in the Cost to Join
If I have no funds can I still join a community?
Cohousing,Housing Co-ops, Conference Centers, Spiritual Communities, Communes
Do Communities Tell You What It Costs?
Sample Costs:What it Costs to Join a Community

Chapter 12: What Does It Take to Live in Community?
Not for the Faint of Heart
What Works Well in Community?
Who Does Well in Community?
Who Does Not Do So Well?
Preparing for Community
What Do Communities Want from You?
What About Young People Just Out of School?

Chapter 13: The Communities Directory, the Internet, and You - Researching Commun...